Thy way, O Elohim, is in the Sanctuary (Heb. Kodesh). (Psalm 77:13)
The story of man, as recorded in the pages of Divine Scripture, begins in a garden and ends in a garden. In both of these paradises — the Garden of Eden and the heavenly New Jerusalem, man walks in intimate oneness with his Creator. Paradise was lost in the former and will be regained in the latter.
But between the two — between the books of Genesis and Revelation — is the saga of man’s separation from his loving Creator due to his prideful rebellion against YHVH’s Torah — his life-giving, fatherly and loving instructions in righteousness. Between Genesis and Revelation is the agonizing history of a Father reaching out in every conceivable manner to his prodigal children, urging them to repent of their sin, and to turn from the downward path that leads to spiritual darkness, separation and eternal death.
YHVH has a plan to redeem man — to save him; that plan is revealed in the Bible — the Word of Elohim. But the Bible is a big, complex and daunting book to most people. Deciphering this plan of salvation can be intimidating to those who do not have the keys to unlock the mysteries. Once the code is deciphered, however, and the plan unveiled, understanding the Book is a cinch. To understand the Tabernacle of Moses is to understand that plan. Though of divine origin, it is a simple layout and design. But its simplicity belies the true enigma of it. Even though the youngest child can understand the basic message of the tabernacle, within it’s linen veiled enclosure is to be found some of the deepest wisdom of the universe, for in it the mysteries of YHVH’s plan of redemption for mankind is revealed. In its furnishings and details one finds in code-form the seven-step plan of YHVH’s set-apart annual appointed times, as well as the seven steps of the biblical Hebraic wedding. These all reveal the steps every human must take to reverse the curse of death that fell upon Adam. They show man the way back to the Father and back to that garden paradise that man lost. Within the set-apart or holy sanctuary of the tabernacle is revealed the way of Elohim, the way of salvation and eternal life.
When Adam and Eve sinned, YHVH thrust them out of the paradise called Eden. They began to wander in search of redemption in a wilderness of separation brought on by their sin. From that point on, men continued to wander seeking redemption. Their wanderings took them further away from redemption and from YHVH the Redeemer, however. We pick this story up with the children of Israel who have left the Wilderness of Sin and begun to wander in the wilderness of Sinai in search of their destiny. After having revealed himself to them at their deepest point of despair, YHVH brought them to a mountain in the desert — Mount Sinai — and presented to them an alternative lifestyle — one that would give them hope and lead them to everlasting life replacing the hopelessness and uncertainty about their future. He then gave them a purpose and a destiny. YHVH gave them a job assignment. It was to build a tabernacle — a place of rest, healing, cleansing and intimate relationship with him. Whether they realized it or not, that simple tent was their future hope. It was the pathway back to paradise. Outside the tent was a hot, parched and gray wilderness full of serpents, scorpions and the dreaded heathen Amalekites. Inside was redemption, cleansing, life, food, leading to the glorious presence of the Elohim of Israel — a foreshadow of the New Jerusalem. David understood this when he said, “Thy way, O Elohim, is in the sanctuary” (Ps 77:13).
WARNING!THIS IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART OR RELIGIOUS GAME-PLAYERS. IT IS FOR THOSE WHO ARE SERIOUS ABOUT THEIR SPIRITUAL WALK. In this video, Nathan Lawrence calls out fakers, frauds, talkers and white-washed sepulcher hypocrites who are part of the so-called Messianic or Hebrew roots movement. This is a call to repentance and for everyone everywhere to get right with YHVH-Yeshua in preparation for his second coming and to stop playing nefarious games with His Torah-Word.
Thank you for all of your loving comments and prayers as I battled COVID a few weeks back. It was only last week that the vast majority my strength returned to me and I was able to start working again, including climbing trees. My son Jared does most of the climbing for our family tree service business, but I still do some of the more technical jobs, and, besides, at age 62 I like to strap on my climbing saddle and get up in a tree once in a while just to prove that I am still up to it. These photos were taken last week.
If you have spent anytime in the mainstream Christians church, you have heard taught that the law of Moses (YHVH Elohim’s Torah-law) was “done away with” or words to that effect. Is this what Yeshua the Messiah and his apostles really taught? How do those who teach that the law of Elohim has been annulled, replaced by the New Covenant and is thus, to a large degree, no longer applicable to Christians reconcile this view with the plethora of Scriptures that say otherwise? They cannot.
No! The false teachers in the Christian church who teach that the law or commandments of Elohim have been done away with have spread before the people of Elohim a table full of vomit and are encouraging, no brainwashing, the people to eat of their fare.
These doctrines and teachings of the mainstream church are nothing more than the traditions of men by which the clear, unchangeable and indisputable Word of Elohim has been made of none effect, which is something for which Yeshua castigated the religious leaders of his day (Mark 7:8–13; Matt 15:3–9), which is a stern warning to every so called follower of Yeshua today.
Yes, as Paul astutely wrote and is as true now as when he penned these words, “the carnal mind is enmity against Elohim; for it is not subject to the law of Elohim, nor indeed can be,” (Rom 8:7). The prophet Jeremiah had something similar to say about the carnal, rebellious and sinful nature of man as well especially when it comes to obeying the Creator’s commandments: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jer 17:9).
Yes, sadly, a long time ago, the leaders of the mainstream church chose to follow the inclinations of their evil hearts and contrived cunningly devised and pernicious justifications, philosophies and unbiblical doctrines of men to circumvent many if not most of the commandments of Elohim. These doctrines of men by which the Word of Elohim has been made of none effect were then codified into theologies, institutionalized into catechisms and doctrinal statements, and then taught in their institutions of education to be passed onto successive generations of deceived people. How sad and vile!
This has been a vast calumny against the clear Word of Elohim orchestrated by Satan the devil himself, who was the first one to question the Word of Elohim at the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden, thus deceiving the first humans to believe the lie that YHVH did not mean what he said when he gave them commandments to obey. This lying deception led to the first sin and man being cut off from Elohim.
The so-called early fathers starting in the second century A.D. fell for the same Satanic deception and bought into the same lie as Adam and Eve. These lies were largely institutionalized in A.D. 325 at the famous Council of Nicea as led and orchestrated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine. This was the nascence of the Roman Catholic Church, which has subsequently passed this false teaching on to all of her harlot daughters and to the spawn that has flowed therefrom.
So why can’t more people see the fact that the mainstream church is incongruent with the biblical Truth they claim to follow? Especially, why can’t the religious leaders with their vast amount of education and advanced degrees including knowledge of biblical linguistics see this? As the saying goes, this is not rocket science! There are many answers to the question why so many Christian leaders are blind to one of the most obvious aspects of biblical Truth. We have already answered this question in part above. Additionally, for many, if not most, its the love of money, or power, or fame, prestige, and the social acceptance that comes from not questioning the status quo. But there is another reason to consider why the erudite have failed to comprehend obvious biblical Truth. It is this: YHVH declared that he would use the foolish and base things of this world (like your author) to confound the wise. Why? That no flesh may glory, and that all the glory should go to Elohim. As we read,
Because the foolishness of Elohim is wiser than men; and the weakness of Elohim is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but Elohim hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and Elohim hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath Elohim chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence. (1 Cor 1:25–29)
Moreover, those people who are Truth seekers and who go against the prevailing current of the mainstream Christian church and begin to study YHVH’s Torah-law, guess what? According to David, the study of the Torah makes one wiser than one’s enemies and teachers. This includes all of the doctors and professors in all of the Christian seminaries who teach that the law was done away with! Says David of those who study YHVH’s Torah,
Oh, how I love Your Torah-law! It is my meditation all the day. You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies; for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep Your precepts. (Ps 119:97–100)
The psalmist’s prediction was realized when the non-formally educated disciples of Yeshua were arrested and hauled before the Jewish religious elite of their day. In the Book of Acts it is recorded,
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Yeshua. (Acts 4:13)
What were the apostles’ only credentials? They had sat at the feet of the Yeshua the Messiah—a Torah teacher.
What does this mean for the saints of Elohim in our day?
It is now time for the true saints of YHVH Elohim and the disciples of Yeshua to wake up to the hard cold fact, as hard to believe and as unpopular as such a realization may be, that they have been deceived and have inherited lies from the church system, and that they need to come out of the harlot system of the whore of Babylon (Rev 18:1–4). It is high time to get back to the Bible in preparation for the coming of our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah, who will judge us all on the basis of the whole counsel of his Word including his Torah-law (Matt 5:19).
The following is a list of phrases that the teachers in the mainstream church continually vomit forth to supposedly justify why YHVH’s Torah-law is no longer relevant to the New Testament saint. Read through this list, and then go on and see what Yeshua and his apostles taught on this subject. Then ask yourself this question: Who is right: the church or the Bible? Then go and do the right thing.
We are not under law anymore; we are now under grace.
The law was nailed to the cross; it was done away with.
Christ fulfilled the law for us so that we don’t have to do it.
Christ is the end of the law.
One is either under law or under grace; law and grace are mutually exclusive terms; when it comes to law and grace it is “either or,” “not both and.”
We have been freed from the works of the law.
We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law; therefore, we do not need the law anymore.
The law was against us.
We are obligated to keep the moral aspects of the law, not the ceremonial aspects of the law.
It is a curse to keep the law.
The Epistle to the Galatians offers a convincing argument against the law.
Love is the fulfilling of the law. All we have to do know is to walk in love.
The curse of the law.
We’re dead to the law.
If we keep the law, we have fallen from grace.
The law was for the Jews, not the Gentiles.
Since we are not justified by the works of the law, we don’t have to keep the law.
What does the Bible really say? Was the law of God (YHVH Elohim) given from his lips to man really done away with, nailed to the cross, a curse, anti-grace, terminated, etc., etc. Did YHVH lie, change his mind, change his standards of righteousness for New Testament Christians, or has the church lied to you about this? What does the Bible really say? We give chapter and verse proof of the real Truth of the matter.
In this video, we discuss the false teaching fallacies in the Christian church pertaining to the Old Covenant versus New Covenant and law versus grace.
